Leicester's Adrien Silva transfer in question for being completed 14 seconds too late

Leicester City's signing of midfielder Adrien Silva from Sporting Lisbon is up in the air after Fifa rejected the player's registration application for being 14 seconds too late.

The Foxes moved for Silva late on last week's transfer deadline day as a replacement for Danny Drinkwater, who was sold to Chelsea for £35m in the dying hours of the window.

Leicester believed they had sealed a £22m deal for the Portugal international before the deadline, but Fifa says its Transfer Matching System (TMS) indicated that the relevant paperwork was submitted 14 seconds past the deadline.